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Yeojil t1_j4thomo wrote

Reply to Current Music Obsession? by daddyspader

A lot of rock songs: Californication, Boys Don’t Cry, When You Were Young, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Paranoid Android, Lotus Flower, Man of War, The Unforgiven II, Piano Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, November Rain…

I get really high when I listen to those songs.

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letsbrocknroll t1_j4pmj7h wrote

Reply to comment by pretty_jimmy in For those around that time how big was the band Sugarcult? by MessyTapes1

When I saw Green Day on the American Idiot tour, Sugarcult was the first of three bands.

My memories of their set was them playing to a stadium full of people still trying to find their seat and the singer taking a hit of a joint from somebody in the crowd.

This was September 2004. If you ask me, being on a tour that scale (coupled with their sync placements in Burnout 3 that same year) was probably their “shot” to become synonymous with the genre.

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drumsareloud t1_j4p5ydi wrote

Reply to For those around that time how big was the band Sugarcult? by MessyTapes1

They’re from my hometown, so I got to watch up close as they went from bar band to getting as big as they did, which… their debut label album sold 300,000 copies and they toured the festival circuit for a few years, so that’s my answer to about how big they ever got.

My understanding is that their major shot at the big leagues was snuffed out because their first single “Stuck in America” got yanked off of the radio right after September 11th due to the lyric “Everybody’s talking about blowing up the neighborhood.”

Back then, earning a Gold record (500,000 units sold) was still a big measure of success, so I’d say they did have a shot at becoming much bigger, by still did just fine. Their singer also went on to write mega-hits and produce for Neon Trees, Walk the Moon, etc. and the bass player founded Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

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